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Parution : 01/2025
Editeurs : Macmillan
Palgrave
ISBN : 978-3-0316-9098-3
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A Socio-History of Internet Policies

Weaving the Digital State in France

Anne Bellon

Présentation de l’éditeur

This book examines the development of internet policymaking over the last forty years. Drawing on evidence from France and elsewhere, it adopts a sociohistorical perspective to offer insights into the ways democratic states regulate the internet and digital transformation more generally. Adopting a chronological approach and utilising both policy analysis and interviews with key actors, it retells the changing role of the state in internet regulation since the inception of the internet to the present day. It also explores the complex relationships between public administrations and internet organizations, and considers whether states are really capable of governing the digital space. It will appeal to all those interested in public policy, digital studies, sociology and communication studies.

 

Sommaire

Introduction
The Origins of Networks: From Research Policies to Internet Politics
The State Against the Internet: Bureaucratic Resistance to the Network in France
Geeks, Webmasters and State Technologists: Evangelizing the Internet
A Revolutionary Moment? Experimenting E-Government in France
The Pirate Years: Copyright Policies in the 2000–2010 Decade
Toward a Digital Mainstreaming
Conclusion: A Multi-Faceted Digital Revolution

International Series on Public Policy , 236 pages.  126,59 €